Trent College

School Profile

If you were to ask current parents why they chose Trent College for their son or daughter, they would tell you that the children here are happy, bright, confident, at ease with themselves and others and full of an infectious energy and enthusiasm for their school life.

We have a very high default setting at our school and we expect all of our students to reach very high levels of achievement … but we want so much more than just fabulous exam results.

At Trent, we offer something much broader, an education which celebrates all; the academic, the creative, the physical, the spiritual and the emotional. What makes Trent so distinct, so different from many other schools, is the breadth of education that we offer and the level of support and care that we give to each student. Our aim simply is to provide our children with a “thorough preparation for life”, because we think that this must be the purpose of a school; preparing young men and women getting them ready for all of the choices, the chances and the challenges that they will meet in their lives.

We insist that every student here becomes the very best version of themself possible, whether that means them gaining a place at Oxford or Cambridge, or finally achieving a place in the Netball C team, or in simply becoming the self-assured, articulate, polite young man or woman that typifies the Trent student.

32% of pupils in HMC schools across the UK received help with their fees in 2015/16 totalling £442 million in assistance....that's over £1.2m per day. £212 million of this was in the form of means-tested bursaries.

79% of HMC schools in the UK and Ireland are co-educational, 13% are boys' only and 8% are girls' only schools. 60% offer boarding in some form.

Pupils in HMC schools play on average between 5 and 6 hours of sports and games a week in over 40 different sports - double the amount played by pupils in state schools. 36 of the medals won by Team GB at Rio 2016 were by athletes educated at HMC schools.